(empty original) China on Friday expressed its categorical rejection of a US Senate resolution on the reincarnation of the spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, calling it a new interference in Beijing's internal affairs, according to local newspaper People.
“The resolution is a reflection of the fact that some people in the United States have always been inexplicably ignorant and arrogant.”, said the spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Hua Chunying, thus responding to a question asked at a press conference on the issue of Tibet and human rights in China.
The Chinese rebuke comes in response to a US Senate resolution adopted on Thursday stating that the responsibility for identifying the future 15th Dalai Lama lies solely with officials in the private office of the current 14th Dalai Lama and that any intervention by the Chinese government will be void., as reported by the newspaper.
It is well known that the reincarnation of a living Buddha in Tibetan Buddhism is a unique system of succession with hundreds of years of history that follows integrated religious rituals and historical conventions., Hua added and then emphasized that said incarnation must follow those rituals and conventions, as well as the laws and regulations of China, and that no person and no country should interfere in it.
That said, It was lamented that American congressmen and officials, instead of concentrating on serving their own people and solving their problems, They dedicate themselves with “an unusual enthusiasm” to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.
On the topic of human rights, recently, The United States Department of State issued Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2017 in which he criticized the human rights situation and ethnic issues in China.
Regarding this report, The Chinese official maintained that the US. has a lot of problems at home, highlighting that systematic racial discrimination has intensified social division in the United States.
“China urges relevant people in the United States to properly handle their own problems before irresponsibly criticizing other countries.”, said the employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Asian giant.
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